Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins! by Karina Evans

I have to say, I was expecting more grand adventures. Thinking about bringing back stuff, saying sorry, those things.

But, I was also happy to see that while she had fun, she also wondered about the consequences. I could see a girl going into her teens and wanting to do her own thing.

She wasn’t afraid to make her wishes known and I loved seeing her grow more and more confident. I was happy when, as grandma decided to make up her own rules, she decided to hop along and even made some of her own rules. She definitely deserved and needed that, especially when her friends (who I was both agreeing with and found bitchy, yes confusing right) ditched her because of her parents many many rules. I just wanted to give Audrey a big big hug. OK, well, some I could understand, but others? Nah. She just wants to have some fun and her parents are very restricting. In this book we meet a girl named Audrey, she is about to go to junior high/middle school (whatever it is called in the US) and she is excited for the summer! I really liked Audrey from the beginning, but I also felt for her. SO I am delighted that I got the chance to read it earlier. This is one of the books that I had been eyeing for a while and just HAD to have when I saw the sign-up. I received this book from TBR and Beyond Tours + the publisher in exchange of an honest review~ But as the two make their way across Hollywood, they realize that the life they think they want might not be what they need. When she finally manages to sneak off to her parents’ car to check her phone, her grandmother climbs into the driver’s seat and speeds off-not realizing Audrey is still in the back seat! After startling each other, they come to a deal: Audrey promises not to tell her parents where her grandma is if Audrey can join in on one last grand adventure-no rules allowed. Now Audrey is stuck helping her parents move her former-movie-star grandmother into a luxury retirement community. But her friends decide her parents’ rules are getting in the way of all their fun and unceremoniously disinvite her from their annual start-of-summer slumber party so they aren’t tied down by boring Audrey. Audrey knows it’s best to just accept the way it is. A grandmother-granddaughter duo set off on the Hollywood adventure of a lifetime in this funny middle-grade novel about breaking rules, growing up, and finding yourself-perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Booki Vivat.Īudrey Covington’s parents are the textbook definition of strict-they don’t let Audrey stay up late or watch scary movies, and they definitely don’t let her go anywhere unsupervised.

Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins! by Karina Evans